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...along with Radcliffe's new lines, we should have this Spring: a variety of colors--brash, bright, and buoyant in skirts, deep tones or dainty pastels in dresses; a similar variety in skirts--from the Guatemalan to the Indian print to the broomstick skirt; as for blouses, nothing much can change there anyway. And we've even heard of a lipstick called Volupte...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Rejects 'The Stringbean Silhouette' | 3/20/1953 | See Source »

When the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences meets at the Pantages Theatre tomorrow, it will-if running to form--abandon scientific selection and vote along non-artistic lines. Two years ago, to skirt a decision between All About Eve and Sunset Boulevard, the Academy chose Born Yesterday. And last year An American in Paris became the darkhorse victor over A Streetcar Named Desire, A Place in the Sun, and Death of a Salesman. Gene Kelly's technicolor crepe suzette was a fine musical comedy--it was also inferior to the other three. Also last year unpopular Marlon Brando...

Author: By Robert J. Schoenberg, | Title: The Popularity Contest | 3/18/1953 | See Source »

...have variously looked like hour-glasses, test-tubes, snakes, string-beans, pincushions, fiddles, pyramids and in one supreme burst of misguided effort, men. But lately things have been pretty undrastic. Until now, that is. Now the fashion silhouette has been stood on its head. The little-top-and-full skirt (or onion look) is not so new as the full-top-and-little skirt (or carrot look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: The Carrot Look | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

Filene's is tired of just plain old Christmas--it was dead; needed jazzing up. So Filene's is having a circus. Clowns handle Santa's overflow. Santa wears a green hat, and a young thing in a peppermint skirt, who could win Mrs. Santa an infidelity suit in any state, toys with it and purrs, "Christmas is sweet...

Author: By Laurence D. Savadove, | Title: Toyland | 12/19/1952 | See Source »

...little girls, Pressman Toy Corp. has a vanity table with ruffled plastic skirt, which comes complete with bench, mirror, comb & brush, and perfume atomizer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: The Christmas Stocking | 11/10/1952 | See Source »

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